BRETT GODFREY CEO | Virgin Blue PS :: Virgin Blue Voyeu r magazine al so celebr ates a milestone next month - its 100th issue. Look out for the special edition on planes and online at w w w.virginbl ue.com .au/voyeur fro m 1 N ovember. V Australia welcomed its 100,000th Guest onboard, and Virgin Blue Airline Group’s tally is 100 million Guests... VIRGIN BLUE Virgin Blue Airlines Pty Ltd PO Box 1034 Spring Hill, Qld 4004 BOOKINGS www.virginblue.com.au 13 67 89 (in Australia) ADMINISTRATION +61 7 3295 3000 GROUP BOOKINGS (10 or more guests) 13 67 00 (in Australia) CORPORATE SALES sales.corporate@virginblue.com.au FLIGHT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES 13 67 89 (in Australia) or simply visit www.virginblue.com.au VIRGIN BLUE FREIGHT 13 15 06 (in Australia) HOLIDAY BOOKINGS www.blueholidays.com.au 13 15 16 (in Australia) 0508 13 15 16 (in New Zealand) CAREERS AT VIRGIN BLUE www.virginblue.com.au/careers V AUSTRALIA V Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 1034 Spring Hill, Qld 4004 BOOKINGS www.vaustralia.com.au 13-8287 (13-VAUS) (in Australia) 1 800 444 0260 (in US) PACIFIC BLUE Pacific Blue Airlines (NZ) Ltd PO Box 1034, Spring Hill, Qld 4004 BOOKINGS www.flypacificblue.com 13 16 45 (in Australia) 0800 67 00 00 (in New Zealand) GROUP BOOKINGS groups@flypacificblue.com CORPORATE SALES nzsales.corporate@flypacificblue.com SALES nzsales@flypacificblue.com POLYNESIAN BLUE Polynesian Blue Airlines Ltd PO Box 1034, Spring Hill, Qld 4004 BOOKINGS www.polynesianblue.com 13 16 45 (in Australia) 0800 67 00 00 (in New Zealand) TICKET SALES Shop 111, Manukau Shopping Centre, Auckland Phone: +64 9 262 4197 Fax: +64 9 262 4203 VELOCIT Y Membership Contact Centre 13 18 75 (in Australia) www.velocityrewards.com.au We have three ver y good reasons to celebrate – a 100,000th milestone, 100 million Guests and 25 million Points. Less than seven months after the newest addition to our airline Group launched, V Australia welcomed its 10 0,000th Guest onboard, and in doing so it brought Virgin Blue Airline Group’s tally up to 100 million Guests since Virgin Blue’s first flight back in August 200 0. Congratulations to our lucky 100,000th Guest, Mr Noel Palmer from Melbourne, who was travelling with his wife Kerry from Sydney to Los Angeles with V Australia. The Palmers (pictured below) star ted their trip of a lifetime in consummate style w hen at check-in they were offered a complimentar y upgrade for two to travel in V Australia’s superb International Business Class. After convincing them it was not a joke and that they were not on a prank show, Mr and Mrs Palmer enjoyed being treated like rockstars all the way to the US, on a flight they will never forget! It’s important for us to mark such occasions, because as insignificant as they may seem, historically these milestones form the foundation of our business and it’s fun to look back and see how we have grown over the years. In 2002, two years after our first airline Virgin Blue launched, we welcomed our five-millionth Guest on board. Less than a year later, our 10-millionth Guest travelled and the number doubled to 20 million Guests by April 2004. These were cer tainly significant milestones for a ‘little’ airline at the time. These days we’d stopped counting, until one of our team pointed out that V Australia’s 100,000th Guest would mean our Group had also passed the 100-millionth mark as we enter our 10th year – enough reason to pop a few Champagne corks in our books. There’s another person in Melbourne popping open a bottle of Champagne after winning 25 million Velocity Points, which she has just cashed in for $100,000 worth of Blue Holidays travel vouchers and $50,000 cash! Twenty-seven-year-old Emma Morris won this incredible prize simply by using her Velocity card to earn Points during a promotion run earlier this year. With more than 40 destinations on our network and many new and exciting places, such as Johannesburg and Phuket, coming online shor tly, we’re sure Ms Morris is going to have a lot of fun travelling the world with Virgin Blue. Thanks for travelling with us today and please enjoy our company. WELCOME_ABOARD_ WELCOME_ABOARD_ OCTOBERVOYEUR 009 V1009_007_BRETT'S_LETTER.indd 009 V1009_007_BRETT'S_LETTER.indd 009 9/09/2009 3:49:43 PM 9/09/2009 3:49:43 PM